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Festivals

FESTIVALS: CINEMA ENDURES BECAUSE ARTISTS PERSIST

A powerful three-day gathering in New Delhi explored cinema’s endurance against censorship, showcasing suppressed films, bold conversatio...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: WHEN PHANTOM INDIA WAS GHOSTED

Khalid Mohamed assesses the now accessible 1969 documentary, Phantom India, helmed by the French auteur Malle, which had been ...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: DISCOVERING JEWELS AMONG THE JUNKPILE

Exhausted by the excessive violence, toxic masculinity and crass comedies of pan-Asian and global cinema, Khalid Mohamed share...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: GIRL, INTERRUPTED BUT UNCOWED

Varsha Bharath’s Bad Girl is a bold, witty, and layered Tamil coming-of-age film that examines a young woman’s chaotic journey of l...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: A DIP INTO THE RIVER OF FEMALE DESIRE

Writer-director Nidhi Saxena’s second film, Secret of a Mountain Serpent, is an exquisite piece of cinema that blurs the line between the...

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Kaleidoscope

KALEIDOSCOPE: THE ONE-WAY SHIPS IS A STIRRING DEBUT

A powerful debut, The One-Way Ships unearths the forgotten voices of colonial India’s ayahs—young girls torn from home, na...

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Business and Politics

BUSINESS: IS BRANDING YESTERDAY? PASSE? DEAD?

A Radical Take on Branding: Monojit Lahiri endeavours to unravel a new-age, revolutionary, path-breaking philosophy put forth ...

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Kaleidoscope

KALEIDOSCOPE: BOLLYWOOD MOVIES WERE MY TEACHERS

A personal journey from street performances and film posters to poetic storytelling, Utpal Datta traces how an unexpected ques...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: CINEMA, LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY & INCEST

Exploring the complex theme of incest in mythology, literature, and cinema across cultures, highlighting its influence on art, storytelling, an...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: THE MANY HINDUISMS OF SECULAR DEMOCRATIC INDIA

Keeping religion a personal matter and not politicising it is crucial to prevent discrimination, promote social cohesion, and uphold the princi...

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